Budget fails to fire General practice leadership flummoxed

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Budget fails to fire General practice leadership flummoxed

8 June 2022

Barbara

Fountain

editor@nzdoctor.co.nz

Wednesday 8 June 2022, 03:45 AM

Caption: RNZCGP president Sam Murton says GPs’ work in the community seems invisible

The Government touted Budget 2022 as a health Budget and gave Vote Health the biggest increase of all sectors. Line items failed to spell out specific spending, however, and the overall document did not impress most primary care leaders. Barbara Fountain collates responses in the days following the Budget

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